Jacqueline Renault

Fairfax, Virginia-Jacqueline Roberge Renault, 92, of Fairfax, Virginia, passed away peacefully at Milly’s Home on March 15th, 2014. She raised a family and then became a nurse working long into her later years out of love for her career. She was born in Montréal, Canada at a time when young women were raised away from home in Catholic convents.This helped shape her curiosity of the world as well as her values. She met her husband at lunchtime in the square by her work in downtown Montréal, soon married and quickly found herself in the wilderness living in a cabin pregnant with her first son. Her husband was part of the engineering crew building the Trans Canadian Highway. Years later, he chose to move the family to the US. She learned Spanish fluently due to a great friend from El Salvador and that quickly became her travel ticket to the world. Also fluent in French and English, she explored Europe, Russia, China, Australia and Central America - often through medical projects she accessed after her nursing studies. She had the ability to make immediate friends, entertain people, and enjoy their cultures. She often lived 50 years ahead of her time. The most impotant wish was that her children would become close and remain so as life went on. The long journey of Alzheimer's, year by year, made her wish true. We hope she knew before she passed.She was predeceased by her husband, Jean Yves Renault and sister, Irene Dinsmore. She is survived by sons Peter Paul Renault and wife Cathy of Topsham Maine, Gilbert Maurice Renault and wife Elizabeth of Florence, Alabama, Joseph Roland Thomas Renault of San Francisco, California and Maureen Lucille Renault- Krock of Fairfax, Virginia; grandchildren Allen Renault of Florence, Alabama and Cameron Schuetze and husband Jacob of Nashville, Tennessee. A Celebration of Life Service was held at Alabama Heritage Funeral Home Chapel at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 3, 2014.The family received friends immediately following the service.